Because the artist sees what he paints rather than paints what he sees.
Ernst Gombrich
Do we need to represent figures exactly as they act or appear in life ?
Modern science, has confirmed what ancient faiths have always taught: the most important fact of life is our natural sense of art. Just paint what you see.
Futility of man up against the forces of nature.
Do we need naturalistic pictures to fit an artistic point of view of the human nature ?
The arts matter because they force us to think about the difference between the good and the bad, the false and the true.
John Tusa